Deflector for oil-heaters.



A. W. INABINETT & T. P. DE GAFFERELLY.

DEFLECTOR FOR 'OIL HEATERS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 29.1916.

1,204,984. Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

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DEFLECTOR FOR OIL HEATERS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 29r 1916.

1,204,984. Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

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ARTHUR W. INABINETT AND THOMAS P. DE GAFFERELLY, 013 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

DEFLEC'IOR FOR OIL-HEATERS.

Application filed February 29, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR W. INABI- NETT and THOMAS P. DE GAFFERELLY, citizens of the United States, residing at Charleston, in the county of Charleston and State of South Carolina, have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Deflectors for Oil-Heaters; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to improvements in deflectors for oil heaters.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of deflectors for heating devices and to provide a simple, practical and comparatively inexpensive deflector adapted to be readily applied to an oil heater and capable of adjustment for throwing downward the heat of an oil heater or analogous heating devices in the desired direction to increase the effect of the heater on persons sitting around the same and to prevent the heat from rising too rapidly to the top of a room.

lVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in the "construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of a deflector constructed in accordance with this invention and shown applied to an oil heater, Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the deflector, Fig. 3 is a reverse plan view of a portion of the hood of the deflector, Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of the means for securing the hood in its adjustment, Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional View of the same, Fig. 6 is a plan view partly in section illustrating the construction of the clamp, Fig. 7 is a sectional view illustrating another form of adjusting means for securing the hood in different positions.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14. 1916.

Serial No. 81,198.

In the accompanying drawings in which 1s illustrated the preferred embodiment of the mvention, the deflector comprises in its construction a hood 1 designed to be constructed of sheet metal or other suitable material and consisting of a flat top 2 and inclined sides and ends 3 and 4 but the form of the hood may be modified and the inte rior may havea bright reflecting face or surface. The central or top portion 2 of the hood is secured to an inverted U-shaped supporting member 4 composedof spaced arms 4" and a connecting top portion which is riveted or otherwise secured to the said hood.

The arms 4 of the supporting member are pivoted by bolts 6 and 7 to vertical standards 8 and 9 which are suitably secured at their lower ends to a sectional clamp 10 and which are angularly bent near their lower ends to offset the body portions of the standards from the upper portion of an oil heater or other heating device to which the reflector may be applied. The sections of the clamps are substantially semi-circular and have outturned terminals 12 which are pierced by adjusting bolts 18 which securely fasten the clamp around the heater 11 at.

the top of the lower portion or base but the clamp may be mounted on the heater at any desired point and may be shaped to conform to the configuration of various forms of which meet at the upper end of the adj aoent 100 standard 9 as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The bracket 18 may be fixed to the standard by any suitable means. The arcuate slot extends upwardly from a point adjacent to the lower termi- 105 nal of the inclined portion 19 of the bracket and when the adjusting bolt is in the lower portion of the arcuate slot, the inverted U- shaped support is arranged in a vertical position. The extension 14 of the support is 110 adapted to swing upwardly to tilt the hood and arrange the same in a rearwardly inclined position for throwing the heat toward the front so that the heating effect of the stove will be increased at the front thereof. The bracket 18 is arranged to permit only a forward adjustment of the extension 14 and are preferably secured respectively to the standard and the side of the support and they frictionally engage each other with sufficient resistance to hold the deflector in an inclined position and. prevent accidental movement of the hood.

What is claimed is 1. The combination with a heater, of a deflector of the class described including a clamp embracing the heater, spaced standards mounted on and extending upwardly from the clamp, a hood and supporting means having sides pivoted to the said stand ards and adapted to swing to and from a vertical position to permit the hood to be arranged either horizontally or in an inclined position and means for retaining the hood in its adjustment.

2. The combination with a heater, of a deflector of the class described including a clamp embracing the heater, standards mounted on and rising from the clamp, a hood, an inverted U-shaped support secured to the hood and having its sides extending downwardly from the hood and pivoted to the standards to permit the hood to be arranged either in a horizontal or inclined position, and means for securing the support in its adjustment.

3. The combination with a heater, of a deflector including spaced standards, means for mounting the same on the heater, a hood provided with arms pivoted to the standards at the upper ends thereof, one of the arms being provided with an extension projecting below the pivot and an approximately triangular bracket rigidly secured to one of the standards adjacent to the said eX- tension and having an inclined bottom portion provided with an arcuate slot and an adjusting device carried by the said extension and operating in the arcuate slot for securing the hood in its adjustment.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR W. INABINETT. THOMAS P. DE GAFFERELLY.

Witnesses:

C. F. Ho'r'rINoER, WM. BISGHOFF.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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